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Religious Conflicts and the Rise of Prussia

In 1024 Conrad II, founder of the Salian dynasty, was elected to rule. Soon the empire was torn by the Investiture Controversy, a conflict over whether the German ruler or the pope had the right to appoint high clergy. It was begun between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. Conflicts between the rulers and the popes over their relative authority continued under the next German ruling dynasty, the Hohenstaufens, especially under Frederick I (Barbarossa) and…

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